Report: 30,000 U.S. troops now in northern Saudi Arabia SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COMTuesday, March 11, 2003 ABU DHABI — Saudi opposition sources, whose initial reports of a U.S. deployment in northern Saudi Arabia have proven credible, now assert that the number of U.S. troops in the kingdom has reached 30,000. Saad Al Faqih, a spokesman for the London-based Saudi Islamic Reform Movement, said the U.S. forces are being deployed along the Iraqi-Saudi border. Faqih told the Qatari-based A-Jazeera satellite channel that the U.S. troops are equipped with weapons and are being harbored in Saudi military bases. More U.S. troops...